Letter 6031: The watchful care of Your Beatitude for the Church and its servants is known to all, and I write to commend both the...

Ennodius of PaviaThe Pope|c. 517 AD|Ennodius of Pavia
imperial politics

The ever-watchful care of your blessedness regards those who serve you, wherever they may be, as though they were present, and without any rest, while it furnishes the support of grace to those who have proved themselves, it invites strangers. For more fruits are gathered from the spectacle of another's labor, because he learns to exert himself in whose eyes the rewards of toil and faith are rendered. And would that the effect were equal to my desires, and that what I have learned to desire for religion's sake were granted to be fulfilled\! My lord, displaying the humility of my service, content with a sparing elocution in the greatest matters, I leave to the letters of the aforesaid to reveal what the lord bishop, your brother, thought about the legation that was sent.

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Latin / Greek Original

XXXI. DOMNO PAPAE ENNODIVS.

Peruigil beatitudinis uestrae cura quasi coram positos in
quocumque loci sint obsequentes adtendit et sine ullis feriis,

XXVIIII. 3 predicto B sanino BLTV 4 properanti fort.
als cõmi∗sẽ L (s eraa.) 6 indicis V 7 principuum L 8 sufficiat
Bb 9 distinantar Bb nanctio L 10 ∗∗animae B

XXX. 15 ad ligoriam B, allegoriam b 16 distinatis B ab
LTV, ad Bl, a B\'lb cõme∗∗∗ationem (mor? ercu.) L 17 a
eorr. uidetur B 18 dator B 20 meroris BITY; moeroris B\'b
reppolistis B, repulistis T b 21 dfie T 22 resignare T\'

XXXI. Epist. 31-34 ferias dari om. B 26 domnino b 27 positum
b 28 adtendit b, attendit L TV

dum gratiae suffragium praestat expertis, inuitat extraneos.
etenim plures ex spectaculo fructus capiuntur laboris alieni,
quia discit operam nauare in cuius oculis redduntur praemia
sudoris et fidei. atque utinam par uotis esset effectus et quod
didici pro religione cupere daretur implere! domine mi, famulatus
mei humilitatem exhibens parca in maximis elocutione
contentus quid domnus episcopus frater uester super directa
legatione senserit patefaciendum praefati litteris derelinquo.

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